MOVIES I HEARTILY RECOMMEND

Adaptation (dir. Spike Jonze, 2002)

American History X (dir. Tony Kaye, 1998)

Annie Hall (dir. Woody Allen, 1977)

Basquiat (dir. Julian Schnabel, 1996)

Beautiful Girls (dir. Ted Demme, 1996)

Boys Don't Cry (dir. Kimberly Peirce, 1999)

The Breakfast Club (dir. John Hughes, 1985)

Cop Land (dir. James Mangold, 1997)

Crossing Delancey (dir. Joan Micklin Silver, 1988)

Do the Right Thing (dir. Spike Lee, 1989)

Double Happiness (dir. Mina Shum, 1995)

Far from Heaven (dir. Todd Haynes, 2002)

Fargo (dir. Joel Coen, 1996)

Flatliners (dir. Joel Schumacher, 1990)

Good Will Hunting (dir. Gus Van Sant, 1997)

Grease (dir. Randal Kleiser, 1978)

Heavenly Creatures (dir. Peter Jackson, 1994)

High Fidelity (dir. Stephen Frears, 2000)

Life is Sweet (dir. Mike Leigh, 1990)

Little Voice (dir. Mark Herman, 1998)

Love and Human Remains (dir. Denys Arcand, 1993)

Manhattan (dir. Woody Allen, 1979)

Mommie Dearest (dir. Frank Perry, 1981)

Moonstruck (dir. Norman Jewison, 1987)

Muriel's Wedding (dir. P. J. Hogan, 1995)

My American Cousin (dir. Sandy Wilson, 1986)

The Paper Chase (dir. James Bridges, 1973)

Raise the Red Lantern (dir. Zhang Yimou, 1991)

The Red Violin (dir. Francois Girard, 1998)

Rock Star (dir. Stephen Herek, 2001)

The Royal Tenenbaums (dir. Wes Anderson, 2001)

Say Anything... (dir. Cameron Crowe, 1989)

Secrets and Lies (dir. Mike Leigh, 1996)

The Silence of the Lambs (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1991)

Singles (dir. Cameron Crowe, 1992)

Six Degrees of Separation (dir. Fred Schepisi, 1993)

The Sixth Sense (dir. M. Night Shyamalan, 1999)

The Sound of Music (dir. Robert Wise, 1965)

The Sum of Us (dirs. Kevin Dowling and Geoff Burton, 1994)

The Sweet Hereafter (dir. Atom Egoyan, 1997)

To Sir, with Love (dir. James Clavell, 1967)

The Usual Suspects (dir. Bryan Singer, 1995)

When Harry Met Sally (dir. Rob Reiner, 1989)

Wings of Desire (dir. Wim Wenders, 1987)

SOME CLASSY CLASSICS (PRE-1960)

All about Eve (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)

All that Heaven Allows (dir. Douglas Sirk, 1955)

Bringing Up Baby (dir. Howard Hawks, 1938)

It's a Wonderful Life (dir. Frank Capra, 1946)

The Magnificent Ambersons (dir. Orson Welles, 1942)

Mildred Pierce (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1945)

Rope (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)

Shadow of a Doubt (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1943)

The Shop Around the Corner (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)

Touch of Evil (dir. Orson Welles, 1958)

Woman of the Year (dir. George Stevens, 1942)

Written on the Wind (dir. Douglas Sirk, 1956)

DOCUMENTARIES MAKE YOU SMART

American Movie (dir. Chris Smith, 1999)

Baraka (dir. Ron Fricke, 1994)

Bowling for Columbine (dir. Michael Moore, 2003)

Crumb (dir. Terry Zwigoff, 1995)

Hoop Dreams (dir. Steve James, 1994)

Brother's Keeper (dirs. Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 1992)

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (dirs. Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 1996)

Paris Is Burning (dir. Jennie Livingston, 1990)

When We Were Kings (dir. Leon Gast, 1996)

ALL-PURPOSE MOVIE LINKS

Internet Movie Database (IMDB)

Rotten Tomatoes: collected reviews

last updated: February 2004